Comment: a
Finnish musician behind nom de plume Thuoom is back again with his
brand new one. His last three or four albums (most of them had been
issued in 2016) were quite abstract ones as if recorded with the
onyx-tinged needle and cartridge. Fokus resembles more his earlier
records at the end of the 00s where he did employ instruments and
non-instruments colourfully to set out his aesthetical pieces of
cake. In fact, it is a platform wherein much used to happen
throughout the course due it seems to be cursed. I am wondering by
myself is it either improvised music or determined sound. The term
"Fokus" should be related to the last one though you cannot
be thoroughly sure because playfulness is an essential part of the
12-track issue. And that's very pro. More profoundly, microscopic
schemes are set up to constitute a macroscopic sonic universe and
therefore revealing a perfect circuit as the whole. The butter
between the parts to be functionally fulfilled ultimately is the
aforementioned curse. Or magic. Or witchcraft. Furthermore, Thuoom
as an artist represents the idea that all the kinds of sound are
music or at least all these sounds could be morphed into music. From
inferior crackles, signal-alike humming and cut-up vowels to wondrous
droning and elliptically shaped electronic grandeur and techno
pulsations at the most minimal extent. It can be considered as a next
level within the so-called forest folk scene. On the other side, you
can perceive similarities with another Finnish masterminds like Mika
Vainio and Ilpo Väisänen. Get it and try to crack the core of this
gem.